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Dev tools · November 20, 2017

GitHub Team Discussions

Now there's more space to talk through your projects 💬

GitHub Team Discussions launched on November 20, 2017 with 260 votes, #100 of 3,137 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

GitHub Team Discussions is a communication tool that allows development teams to collaborate and plan projects in one centralized location. Teams can create discussion posts on their organization page to coordinate planning, analysis, design, user research, and project decisions. The feature integrates with GitHub's existing platform, giving developers a dedicated space to talk through work alongside their code repositories and version control.

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From the sources

GitHub Team Discussions is a way to help your team plan together, update one another and talk about any topic you'd like in discussion posts on your team's page in an organisation. Processes like planning, analysis, design, user research and general project decision making can now be done in one place.

Working together on software is so much more than writing code. Processes like planning, analysis, design, user research, documentation, and general project decision-making all play a part in the build…

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